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Local author Susan Meissner believes historical fiction can be immersive: “It has the unique quality of being able to transport a reader back into time.”
Her new novel, “The Nature of Fragile Things,” does that through a depiction of the the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its ramifications.
“A well-written nonfiction can do that as well, but I find nonfiction to be largely detail-driven, and fiction is all about the human element,” she said. “Nonfiction can explain the details of a historical event and even tell you what it was like to live through it, but only a novel can let you feel what it was like.